In article <
9713523b-1c48-45e0...@h37g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
NefeshBarYochai says...
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>On Jan 1, 8:37=A0pm, Kat <
ladyas...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Jan 1, 10:25=A0pm, NefeshBarYochai <
tach...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Dec 29 2011, 12:15=A0pm, Kat <
ladyas...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> > > know... FACT.. marriages have run foul for a very very long time, eve=
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>> > > before the rise of judeo-christian faiths. In fact, it was such a
>> > > common societal problem than the bible itself discusses affairs and
>> > > other marital problems.
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>> > > Two people in love wanting to live together has nothing to do with
>> > > religion, particularly in a country where atheists have the same
>> > > rights under the law as people of faith. We are all human beings..
>> > > black, white, male, female, muslim, christian, gay, straight,
>> > > transgender.. we are ALL one race, one tribe. To deny any subgroup of
>> > > the human race their fundamental rights as people is morally,
>> > > intellectually and spiritually wrong.
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>> > > This is not a theocracy. So long as "marriage" as an institution
>> > > impacts our taxes, our insurance and even our right to visit our love=
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>> > > ones in the emergency room.. it is secular. Many states go so far as
>> > > to recognize "common law" marriages.. no ceremony required. As such,
>> > > religion no longer "owns" the term.- Hide quoted text -
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>> > All I know is the best policy is for the government to put a bounty on
>> > all homos and let hunting licenses to hunt gays be issued from the
>> > Department of Wildlife. =A0Then we could get rid of all those
>> > cocksuckers and sodomites and clean up humanities act in the process.
>> > Crime and plagues would go down and the majority of people would live
>> > happier than we live now.
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>> I genuinely hope you are being facetious. If you aren't, you are the
>> reason why we have laws to protect people from hate crimes.- Hide quoted =
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>I seek to gather strength among good people by gathering a coalition
>to change the laws both locally and federally so that homosexuals can
>be bountied, then hunted down and slain in order to prevent disease,
>plague and demoralization of the American people. We can look to the
>Torah where it is written that says: =93You shall not lie with a man as
>one lies with a woman Leviticus 18:22. The Torah makes is clear that
>homosexuality is an abomination. Any adult who commits this sin
>intentionally and with full knowledge of what he was doing is to be
>stoned to death. If he has no prior warning, the consequence is
>excision; if this sin was committed mistakenly, a sin-offering has to
>be brought.
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>Abn Ezra says: Homosexual relationships are forbidden because they are
>a perversion of nature and an act of disobedience to the will of God.
>In sex relationships, God intended man to be the giver, and woman the
>receiver. He then cites the following statements by other authorities
>relating to this prohibition: (1) a man must not have sexual relations
>with a man who has changed his sex and has become a woman; (2) a man
>must not have sexual relations with a hermaphrodite. (Ibn Ezra holds
>that sexual relations between persons of the same sex, or between
>humans and animals, are forbidden because they cannot produce
>offspring. These sexual relations therefore represent =93spilling one=92s
>seeds in vain=94)
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>Nahmanides says: Homosexual relations are forbidden because they are
>repulsive and because they cannot result in offspring.
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>Sources:
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>B. Nedarim 51a; B. Sanhedrin 54a, 54b, 55a, 60a; B. Yevamot 83b; B.
>Gittin 85a; Yad, Hilkhot Issurei Bi=92ah, Chap. 1; Yad Hilkhot Shegagot,
>Chap. 4; Sefer haMitzvot (Lo Ta=92aseh) 348, 349, 350; Sefer Mitzvot
>Gadol (Lav) 94,95,96; Shulhan Arukh, Even ha-Ezer, Chap. 24; Sefer ha-
>Hinnukh, Mitzvot 209, 210, 211.
Some people reading what you wrote might conclude
that your call for the death penalty for homosexuals
is just a return to an old Jewish tradition. I mean, here
you are quoting Torah and scholars and all. Now, I was
willing to give you the benefit of a doubt before
looking into it -- coulda been that you guys wacked
homos back in the day. Got pretty brutal. But, see I
don't take anybody's word when it comes to heavy
shit like this because let's face it -- it's real easy to
make up stuff that looks right to somebody but
it's really bullshit and then you use it to mess
with people you don't like. Like the Nazis did with
the propaganda that Jews were sub-human and such.
No disrespect, just making a point is all. Anyway,
when I found this explanation about capital
punishment for homosexuals in Jewish history,
I say to myself, see, smart to look into this for
myself and not take the word of just anybody:
"However, even in Biblical times, it was very
difficult to get a conviction that would lead to
this prescribed punishment. The Jewish oral law
states that capital punishment would only be
applicable if two men were caught in the act of
anal sex, if there were two witnesses to the act,
if the two witnesses warned the men involved
that they committed a capital offense, and the
two men - or the willing party, in case of rape
- subsequently acknowledged the warning but
continued to engage in the prohibited act anyway.
As such, it is not surprising that there is no
account of capital punishment, in regards to
this law, in Jewish history."
Not even "rarely imposed" -- "there is no
account of capital punishment, in regards to
this law, in Jewish history."
So like, you're gonna start a *new* "old" tradition?
Do you think you're a prophet or something?
You sound like a bitter old man to me who
just gets off on hating. We need *fewer* of
your kind here in America, not more. Don't
come around my neighborhood looking for
trouble because you will find it. Stay in your
room. Think about what you're representing
and pray or study or whatever, but you need
to get your head on right, and you're head
is just not right right now and I just proved it.